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onsdag 31 maj 2017

At the Vervet Monkey Foundation in South Africa kind people take care of orphaned baby Vervet monkeys. Kyle Salazar has made a documentary about the foundation and the situation of the Vervet monkeys. These monkeys habitat are under threat of destruction.

The Orange Gunny is a short film from Iran about compassion, poverty, caring and sharing.I was surfing the Internet and found an interesting short film from 2014 written and directed by Mehrdad Zahraei. The Orange Gunny, that is less than five minutes long, gives us a glimpse of what it's like to live in poverty for a young child. But the story is also about compassion. From my view it is also about caring and sharing.From my own experience I know that when one doesn't have very much it is sometimes easier to share with those who have even less. Maybe because it is easier to understand what it's like to have a very small amount of - for example - money, and being able to put oneself in someone else's shoes.Watch the thoughtful The Orange Gunny and tell me what you think of it in the comment section, thanks!

In only a few days the trailer to Okja has been viewed more than 1.000.000 times on YouTube! Watch the trailer below!

Okja is a South Korean-American action-adventure film directed by Bong Joon-ho. With actors Ahn Seo-hyun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano and Jake Gyllenhaal.From my view the movie seems to have a animal rights message. Could it be a message to us in the west to stop eating pigs and a message to people in the east to stop eating dogs? Or maybe a more universal message to approach the animals with empathy and love? Well, I don't know since I haven't seen it. We will just have to wait until we get a better view 😉It had its world premiere at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival on May 18th. It will be available on Netflix on June 28th.

Canadian photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur's latest book project is called Captive: the Book.With her camera Jo-Anne McArthur has documented individual animals living in captivity. You can find more information on weanimals.org. On Amazon.com you can have a look inside this book and order it as well.

Her book from 2013 called We Animals can also be ordered from Amazon.com where you can have a look inside.Watch an interview with McArthur here. If you want to know more about her and her work, I recommend the animal rights documentary The Ghosts In Our Machine in which filmmaker Liz Marshall follow McArthur as the film's protagonist.

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In English: Rörelse för djurrätt is a blog supporting the idea of animal rights. It started out in Swedish but now I'm also blogging in English.Feel free to comment and drop by again. Find more information under Om/About in the menu./Christoffer Edström